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Comic books and videogames are the chocolate and peanut butter of geek culture. The two flavors of adolescent eye candy blend perfectly in City of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game sure to rob you of countless hours of fresh air and sunshine. City lets you create your own superheroes: Choose from character archetypes (wanna be a mutant, a sorcerer, or a science experiment gone horribly awry?), costumes (there's roughly a septillion killer combos), and an arsenal of weapons and powers (metal claws, telekinesis, invisibility, and more). Your creation then joins thousands of others to combat evil in crime-ridden Paragon City. Keep your eyes peeled for Wired's fearsome threesome in the Skyway or stamping out sewer rats in King's Row. A tip for newbies: Stay out of Perez Park after dark.

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Mistress MeltdownOrigin: After a run-in with a reactor core, this coed warhead is on a fission-powered mission to waste villains, creeps, and guys who say "nuke-u-ler."Superpowers: She can shoot radioactive neutrino bolts, and her transfusion attacks suck vitality from foes.

The Duke of BiohazardOrigin: He was the shortest second-grader in Georgia until his parents put him on a mutagenic growth hormone. He ain't the runt no more!Superpowers: This good ol' boy grew up to be a strapping 7'6", with a bulletproof physique and a pulverizing Power Stomp.

Professor PainOrigin: A mild-mannered nanoengineer decided to upgrade and overclock himself. Now he can save the world – but he still can't get a date.Superpowers: This cyborg can summon an electromagnetic defense shield and fire deadly neurotoxins at evildoers.

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